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Time to look at ‘Ease of Living’ Post-Covid world The unorganised sector needs a big boost   -  SOMASHEKARA GRN× Improving lives of poorest must be the measure of India’s progress, rather than ease of doing business for global investors The Covid virus’ second strike in India has revealed both bad and good sides of the country. Oxygen tankers flown from other countries for patients in the capital city of a country that sends rockets to the moon is clearly bad. Not enough doctors and...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the ...

The Budget is strategic, wise, and visionary to turn India into a $5 trillion economy and a message to the world that India no longer plays by the handed over handbook, says Swati Khemani of Carnelian Capital.

Not totally liberal, right? they have ill liberal meters, these are democracies, lets start to appreciate them for the evolutions they are making and not pretend they are all going to become like china. theyre no theyre going in the opposite direction. i call state capacity. the capacity of a government to do things for its people. to deliver the basic job creation, social spending, healthcare. what you are seeing, into democracies, is 2 billion people and their governments, you are seeing this ...

End of the cold war, all the more alarming because of the growing development in use of weapons of mass destruction by state and nonstate actors. our adversaries as well as the other maligned actors are using cyber and other instruments of power to shape societies and markets, international rules and institutions, and international hot spots to their advantage. we have entered a period that can best be described as a race for technological superiority. against our adversaries who seek to sew div...

The last several years now we have built up quite a considerable. legal framework both at the national level and the regional level and at the international level so the legislation is there i think the fundamental particles are making progress is simply the operational challenge of monitoring supply chains across thousands of art is no mind sites which cover a vast region with poor transport infrastructure and low state capacity so when you combine actualities with the lack of political will be...

Then the pakistanis go nuclear. they become one of from one of our closest allies to a sanctioned adversaries. we withdrew in partnerships and relationships. hay didnt build again until 9/11. >> so you have pakistan in total isolation. >> and a failed afghanistan. they dont know the u.s. they dont trust us. thats what led to 9/11. >> i get it. >> were building from that. right now our goals are quite limited. were trying to deny a sanction ware on national terrorist threats. to do that you have ...